Meanings
- not comparableOf or relating to a class of problems, in robotics and motion planning, for which velocity, acceleration, and force/torque bounds must be satisfied, together with kinematic constraints such as avoiding obstacles.
Currently, state-of-the-art methods evolve around kinodynamic variants of popular sampling-based algorithms, such as Rapidly-exploring Random Trees (RRTs).
2016, Oktay Arslan, Karl Berntorp, Panagiotis Tsiotras, “Sampling-based Algorithms for Optimal Motion Planning Using Closed-loop Prediction”, in arXiv1 more example
Kinodynamic planning attempts to solve a robot motion problem subject to simultaneous kinematic and dynamics constraints. In the general problem, given a robot system, we must find a minimal-time trajectory that goes from a start position and velocity to a goal position and velocity. While exact solutions to this problem are not known, we provide the first provably-good approximation algorithm. and show that it runs in polynomial time.
1993, Bruce R. Donald, Pat Xavier, John Canny, John Reif, “Kinodynamic Motion Planning”, in Journal of the ACM, volume 40, number 5, →DOI, pages 1048–1066
Origin
Coined in a 1993 Journal of the ACM paper (40(5): 1048-1066) by Bruce Donald, Pat Xavier, John Canny, and John Reif. Presumably from kinematic and dynamic.
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